Coal-fired power plants required to use super critical technology

More than 600 MW of coal-fired power plant projects under the government?s 35,000 MW power plant development program will have to use the super critical boiler technology.

Rinaldy Dalimi, a member of the National Energy Council (DEN) said in a statement issued on Monday that the target has been set up under the National Energy General Planning (RUEN).

He said that the use of the clean coal technology will have reduce the environmental risk of coal-fired power plant projects.

He added that the use of the super critical boiler technology also forms part of the government?s efforts to meet its target to reduce greenhouse gas emission by 29 percent in 2030 as promised by President Joko Widodo at the Paris environmental convention in 2015.

The government has set out a target to develop a combined 35,000 MW power plants in five years until 2019, of which 56.97 percent will be coal-fired.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak